Interview: Exploring multiple pathways to find new cures

John F Seymour speaks to Sophie Breeze, Assistant Commissioning Editor: Professor John Seymour is Head of the Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne, Australia). He received his MB and BS degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1987, pursued training in hematology including a fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (TX, USA), and successfully completed PhD studies at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Parkville, Australia). Professor Seymour is a member of several national and international scientific committees, including Cancer Australia Advisory Groups, the Victorian Government Consultative Council on Human Research Ethics, the Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Workshop on non-Hodgkin lymphoma, International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, and the International Workshop on Myelodysplasia and the Board of Directors of the International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group. He is the immediate past Chairman of the major national clinical trials cooperative group in hematologic malignancies, the Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group. He is a frequent invited speaker nationally and internationally and a member of numerous professional societies. He has also authored 13 book chapters, more than 300 peer-reviewed publications (which have been cited more than 7500 times), and approximately 500 conference abstracts. Actively involved in research, Professor Seymour has received more than AUS$10 million of competitive grant funding in the last 5 years and is national study chairman for 12 ongoing national or international clinical trials.

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